On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 03:02:50PM +0100, Mark Rosenstand wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using the devtmpfs patch for 2.6.31 and recently mainline > 2.6.32-rc5. I've noticed that /dev now have default tmpfs permissions, > i.e. 1777. > > CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y > CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y > > One can chmod the directory, but would it not make sense to use a more > less permissive mode (e.g. 0755) by default? I think the patch sent by Kay to the linux-kernel mailing list yesterday will solve this problem. It uses the default umask instead. Can you test it out to verify this? > Thanks for working out this feature, the "just works" of devfs together > with the configurability of udev - love it :) Glad you like it. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
